Some last minute changes to Arizona’s new law aimed at illegal immigrants are largely meaningless according to one of the organizations that still plans to sue to have it overturned.

In the weeks before she signed Arizona's tough new immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer's office was inundated with letters, e-mails, faxes and phone calls, with more than 90 percent urging her to veto the legislation.

At least two lawsuits have already been filed in federal courts in Arizona to challenge the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigration, but three national organizations say they plan one of their own.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama vaulted past Arizona on Thursday with what is being called the most restrictive law in the nation against illegal immigration, requiring schools to find out if students are in the country lawfully and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride.

By a fairly wide margin, most Americans support the key provisions of Arizona’s new law which targets illegal immigrants.

Civil rights advocates sued the state of Arizona in federal court Tuesday, claiming the state's Legal Arizona Worker Act violates the U.S. Constitution and threatens the success of Arizona businesses.

By a fairly wide margin, most Americans support the key provisions of Arizona’s new law which targets illegal immigrants.

Civil rights advocates sued Arizona in federal court Tuesday, claiming the state’s Legal Arizona Worker Act violates the U.S. Constitution and threatens the success of Arizona businesses.

TUCSON — With the scrawl of a pen, GOP Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona awakened the dormant but explosive issue of illegal immigration, sending shock waves across the political spectrum in an election year when both parties had hoped to sidestep the topic.

A self-proclaimed "progressive" think tank that favors letting illegal immigrants remain in the United States claims a boycott of conferences because Arizona's new immigration law will cost the state $141 million in spending and $9.4 million in lost taxes during the next two or three years.

By a fairly wide margin, most Americans support the key provisions of Arizona’s new law which targets illegal immigrants.

Arizona’s immigration laws — Senate Bill 1070 and the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) — were designed to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state by levying punishments on Arizona businesses that hire undocumented immigrants.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied an Arizona sheriff's request to reverse a lower-court decision barring his deputies from detaining people solely on the suspicion that they're illegal immigrants.

The first two challenges to Arizona’s new law aimed at illegal immigrants were filed Thursday.

SAN DIEGO — New Mexico's governor says it is a step backward. Texas isn't touching it. And California? Never again.

SAN DIEGO — New Mexico's governor says it is a step backward. Texas isn't touching it. And California? Never again.

Florida doesn't have an Arizona-style immigration law yet, but mention the possibility and you'll hear a lot of anxious sighs.

Adan Gallegos stands with a crowd of day laborers waiting on job offers in front of the Circle K convenience store in Chandler’s “Little Sonora” neighborhood.

The state and its taxpayers will suffer if there is any delay in enforcing Arizona's new immigration law, an attorney for Gov. Jan Brewer told a federal judge Thursday.

"Cuanto?" asks a young man pointing to four bottles of car polish at a recent garage sale in an east Phoenix neighborhood.

The frustration had been building for years in Arizona with every drug-related kidnapping, every home invasion, every "safe house" discovered crammed with illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Gov. Jan Brewer is threatening to have Attorney General Terry Goddard blocked from interfering in what could be the most broad-based challenge to the state's new immigration law.

The “papers please’’ provision of Arizona’s SB 1070 is now in effect.